The Providence Steamrollers: A Forgotten NFL Team
The Providence Steam Roller was a professional American football team based in Providence, Rhode Island, that competed in the National Football League for two seasons, 1925 and 1931. The team played its home games at the Cyclodome. While their existence was brief, they hold a unique place in NFL history as a representative of the league’s early years and the broader landscape of professional football at the time. Their name, evoking images of powerful machinery, reflected the industrial era in ...
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